Nottingham Panthers’ season of woe in the Elite League continued with a heavy 7-3 defeat in Cardiff, a result which comes just 24 hours after yet more humiliation against arch-rivals Sheffield.

Despite going in front in the early stages of the first period through Jeff Brown netting on the power play, a goal which gave the visitors the lead at the end of the opening quarter, the table-toppers roared back and levelled things up early on in the second – a period which proved decisive in the principality.

Justin Faryna made it 1-1 with his first of four just moments into it before he put the Devils 2-1 up and before Corey Neilson’s beleaguered side had chance to blink, it was 3-1 five minutes later when Layne Ulmer slammed home on the power play.

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Panthers’ task was made all the more difficult when Joey Haddad made it 4-1 before the end of the second period and by that point, there was no way back.

Nottingham Panthers head coach Corey Neilson (Image: James Turner)

With 50 minutes on the clock, Faryna was on hand to get his third of the night and make it 5-1 before former Panthers star Matthew Myers teed up Paul Crowder barely 18 seconds later to add further gloss to the scoreline against the hapless visitors.

It went from bad to worse for Neilson’s men when the excellent Faryna made it 7-1 on 53, though Panthers pulled one back on the power play when Zack Phillips registered with four minutes left in the third period.

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Panthers pulled another back through Yann Sauve with 36 seconds on the clock, but that score only stood to reduce the arrears as they suffered yet another heavy loss on what’s turned out to be a poor weekend following Saturday's 4-0 reverse to the Steelers.